- Microcredit Summit Declaration
- Microcredit Summit, 1999
- Institutional alternatives for microfinance: concept paper
- microLINKS,, 1999
- African Journals Online (AJOL)
- International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications, 1999
- The International Network for Scientific Publications (INASP) launched AJOL in 1998 with only 14 journals. By January 2004 it had over 175 African journals covering most subject areas. Journals included in AJOL are scholarly in...
- Promoting and sustaining SMEs clusters and networks for development
- United Nations [UN] Conference on Trade and Development, 1998
- The analysis and case studies presented in this issues paper suggest that clustering and networking are among the best options to support the growth of SMEs and their ability to compete effectively in the global economy. This is true ...
- Strengthening Capacities in Developing Countries to Develop Their Environmental Services Sector
- United Nations [UN] Conference on Trade and Development, 1998
- Efforts to strengthen capacities in the environmental services sector in developing countries are aimed primarily at addressing and eventually solving environmental problems. They can also result in developing countries' ability to be...
- The usefulness of private and public information for foreign investment decisions
- Yuko Kinoshita; Ashoka Mody / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1997
- Information on operating conditions based on direct experience in a country is likely to be the information most credibleto foreign investors. But for investors new to a country, information inferred from observing others investing in...
- Safe and sound banking in developing countries : we're not in Kansas anymore
- Gerard Caprio / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1997
- Making banking safe and sound in developing countries requires (1) paying more attention to factors that restrict banks' ability and willingness to diversify risk and (2) giving three key groups owners (and managers), the market, and ...
- Privatization, public investment, and capital income taxation
- Harry Huizinga; Soren Bo Nielsen / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1997
- Huizinga and Nielsen investigate the optimal boundary between the public and private production sectors. They use a model in which government and private production coexist in which a range of production activities can be carried out ...
- Moving to Greener Pastures? Multinationals and the Pollutionhaven Hypothesis
- Gunnar S. Eskeland; Ann E. Harrison / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999
- Eskeland and Harrison find almost no evidence that investors in developing countries are fleeing environmental costs at home. Instead, the evidence suggests that foreign owned plants in four developing countries are less polluting tha...
- How Foreign Investment Affects Host Countries
- Magnus Blomstrom; Ari Kokko / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999
- Foreign direct investment may promote economic development by helping to improve productivity growth and exports in the multinationals' host countries. But the exact nature of the relationship between foreign multinational corporation...
- Cyclical fluctuations in Brazil's real exchange rate : the role of domestic and external factors
- Pierre-Richard Agenor; Alexander W Hoffmaister; Carlos I Medeiros / International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997
- The paper examines the links between capital inflows and the real exchange rate in Brazil. The first part presents the analytical background. The second part estimates a vector autoregression model linking capital inflows, the interes...
- The determinants of banking crises : evidence from developing and developed countries
- Asl Demirguc-Kunt; Enrica Detragiache / International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997
- In the 1980s and early 1990s several countries experienced severe banking crises. This study attempts to identify which features of the economic environment tend to breed banking sector problems by econometrically estimating the proba...
- Do central banks need capital?
- Peter Stella / International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997
- Do tax rates encourage entrepreneurial activity?
- Roger H. Gordon / International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997
- Effects of the European economic and monetary union (EMU) on taxation and interest spending of national governments
- Francesco P Mongelli / International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997
- The Egyptian stabilization experience : an analytical retrospective
- Arvind Subramanian / International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997
- This paper analyzes the successful Egyptian stabilization experience during the 1990s, focusing on its distinctive features and contrasting them with the recent experiences of other developing countries that undertook adjustment. The ...
- Estimating the equilibrium real exchange rate : an application to Finland
- Tarhan N. Feyzioglu / International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997
- Exchange rate volatility, pricing to market and trade smoothing
- Peter B. Clark; Hamid Faruqee / International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997
- Explaining and forecasting the velocity of money in transition economies : with special reference to the Baltics, Russia and other countries of the former Soviet Union
- Mark de. Broeck; Kornelia Krajnyak; Henri Lorie / International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997
- Exchange rate-based stabilization in Western Europe : Greece, Ireland, Italy and Portugal
- Enrica Detragiache; A. Javier Hamann / International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997
- Department of Economics, Strathclyde University
- University department. Research interests in the Department are wide-ranging, with particular emphasis on Applied Microeconomics, Applied Econometrics, Regional Economics and Energy Economics.
- Development bank of Latin America
- SecretarÃa General Iberoamericana (SEGIB)
- SEGIB is an Inter-governmental organisation for the provision of institutional and technical support to the Iberoamerican Conference and the Iberoamerican Summit Meeting of Heads of State and Heads of Government. SEGIB has member countries in Latin America and the Iberian Peninsula - Spain, Portugal and Andorra.
- International Emissions Trading Association (IETA)
- The International Emissions Trading Association (IETA) is a non-profit business organisation created in June 1999 to establish a functional international framework for trading in greenhouse gas emission reductions.
- Africa Progress Panel
- The Africa Progress Panel consists of a group of individuals who lend their time to track and encourage progress in Africa, and to underscore shared responsibility between African leaders and their international partners for sustaining it. A Geneva-based Secretariat supports the Panel in three main areas: research and policy; advocacy and communication; and preparation of APP core produ...
- Jubilee South Asia Pacific Movement on Debt and Development (JSAPMDD)
- Jubilee South Asia Pacific Movement on Debt and Development (JSAPMDD) is a regional alliance of peoples’ movements, community organisations, coalitions, NGOs and networks.
- International Growth Centre (IGC)
- The International Growth Centre (IGC) aims to promote sustainable growth in developing countries by providing demand-led policy advice based on frontier research. Based at LSE and in partnership with Oxford University, the IGC is initiated and funded by DFID. The IGC has 13 active country programmes in 12 countries (Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Ghana, India (Bihar state and Central), Mozambiqu...
- University of Western Australia
- Frankfurt School - UNEP Collaborating Centre for Climate & Sustainable Energy Finance (FS UNEP)
- Frankfurt School – UNEP Collaborating Centre for Climate & Sustainable Energy Finance is a strategic cooperation between the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management (Frankfurt School).
- Long-Run Economic Perspectives of an Ageing Society (LEPAS)
- The EU member countries will be increasingly populated by older people. Nearly 25 percent of people in the European Union in 2030 can be above age 65, up from about 17 percent in 2005. Europe's old-age dependency ratio (the number of people age 65 and older compared with the number of working-age people ages 15-64) could more than double by 2050, from one in every four to fewer than one in every t...
